Great God! Is injustice nothing? Is honor nothing? Is even pecuniary interest to be sacrificed to this insane and vulgar hate? But it is said that this is the “white man’s country.” Not so, sir. This is the red man’s country by natural right and the black man’s by virtue of his suffering and toil. Your fathers by violence drove the red men out and forced the black man in. The children of the black man have enriched the soil by their tears, sweat and blood. Sir, we were born here, and here we chose to remain…. I elect to stay on the soil on which I was born, and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don’t advise me to leave, and don’t add insult to injury by telling me it’s for my own good; of that I am to be the judge. It is vain that you talk to me about “two races” and their “mutual antagonism.” In the matter of rights there is but one race and that is the human race.